Helpful Score: 6
If the aim of a story is to make the reader feel, then I would have to consider this story a success. However, if success is measured in how well one likes the main characters, then no, this story didn't succeed with me.
I found the heroine to be unbearably selfish and unwilling to accept that she was a shit to her high school boyfriend. Every other character in the story touched me in a positive way. Even the old boyfriend grew as a person, but at the end of the story, IMO, Daisy hasn't grown at all and is still getting her way on everything.
I normally really like Rachel Gibson's books, and I read this all the way to the end, hoping she would find a way to redeem the heroine in my eyes, but it just didn't happen. By then, I just wanted to see what she'd done cost her half as badly as it cost Jack. I guess if I can't have redemption, I'll take revenge.
I found the heroine to be unbearably selfish and unwilling to accept that she was a shit to her high school boyfriend. Every other character in the story touched me in a positive way. Even the old boyfriend grew as a person, but at the end of the story, IMO, Daisy hasn't grown at all and is still getting her way on everything.
I normally really like Rachel Gibson's books, and I read this all the way to the end, hoping she would find a way to redeem the heroine in my eyes, but it just didn't happen. By then, I just wanted to see what she'd done cost her half as badly as it cost Jack. I guess if I can't have redemption, I'll take revenge.
Sandra C. (sandybees) reviewed Daisy's Back in Town (Lovett, Texas, Bk 1) on + 109 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
I love Rachel Gibson and this book is another good one. It centers around Daisy Lee Monroe, a thirty something who returns to her home town with a confession. Daisy Lee has to tell her former high school sweetheart that he's the father of her fifteen year old son. Although I love Rachel Gibson, who's a fantastic writer, I thought the character of Daisy Lee was selfish to the bone. I really don't enjoy the stories about a woman telling a man decades later that he's a father. I don't think there are many writers who can justify such a choice. In this story Daisy's ex Jack seems like a nice guy (albeit with a few faults) so it seems incomprehensible that Daisy would lie to Jack for fifteen years about giving birth to his child. There is another facet to Daisy's deception that is just so low that I couldn't stomach it as a reader. I don't want to give away the whole plot but she betrays him so viciously that it would actually bring a person to their knees. At one point in the book Jack says to Daisy, "If that's what you do to people you love, I can't imagine what you have in store for people you hate." In short, this sums up the heroine. I liked the premise of the book but I hated the main character Daisy's selfishness. It made me dislike her as the main character of the book.
Helpful Score: 1
This was an enjoyable book. Pretty on par with a lot of Gibson's other work. Clever.
Helpful Score: 1
Cute fun read about going back to your hometown.
Robin M. (robinmy) -
Helpful Score: 1
After 15 years, Daisy Monroe is back in her hometown and on a mission. She made a promise to her late husband to look up their best friend, Jackson Parrish, and tell him the truth about what happened years earlier. Jack wants absolutely nothing to do with her. Daisy tore his heart out 15 years ago and he isn't about to let her do it again. Problem is Daisy keeps popping up everywhere he goes.
I have mixed feelings about this book. First, you find out early in the story that Daisy is coming back to town to tell Jack that they have a son. She knew she was pregnant when she suddenly married his best friend, Steven, and left Jack to deal with the problems in his personal life on his own. I thought it was very selfish on her part. Throughout the story she tells him she is sorry about what she did; but I somehow wasn't sure she actually meant it. On the other hand, I loved the character of Jack and felt really bad for him. He and Daisy had amazing chemistry and I wanted them to solve their problems and get together. I just wish Daisy had been a little more remorseful about her actions. My rating: 4 Stars.
I have mixed feelings about this book. First, you find out early in the story that Daisy is coming back to town to tell Jack that they have a son. She knew she was pregnant when she suddenly married his best friend, Steven, and left Jack to deal with the problems in his personal life on his own. I thought it was very selfish on her part. Throughout the story she tells him she is sorry about what she did; but I somehow wasn't sure she actually meant it. On the other hand, I loved the character of Jack and felt really bad for him. He and Daisy had amazing chemistry and I wanted them to solve their problems and get together. I just wish Daisy had been a little more remorseful about her actions. My rating: 4 Stars.
